• Use only two directions (as much as possible): The tiles can be moved in 4 directions. They are up, right, down and left. You can move your tiles down and left with essentially no risk. This will keep the tiles in the lower left of the screen. You should then save moving your tiles right to accomplish specific goals such as combing tiles so that they can then be moved down. It’s not that you can’t move your tiles to the right, it just leads to a few issues such as trapping a tile on the left side. Try to make sure you have your bottom row full before moving to the right. The trapped tiles issues will be cover below.
  
  
• Never move your tiles up: You should avoid moving your tiles up at all costs. Moving your tiles up when you do not absolutely have to will cause endless headaches. Sometimes you have to, but if you have any other move, take it!
  
  
• Keep your tiles tidy: Keeping your tiles to the lower left is not the only element. You should also avoid having your highest tiles to the bottom left.
  
  
• Focus on your goal: Keeping your tiles to the lower left is not the only element. You should also avoid having your highest tiles to the bottom left. This means you should not have a board like this:
  
  
  
  The 128 to the lower left will cause problems. If that tile is 32 or less it is an easy fix, and this is sometimes unavoidable. Tiles out of place like this (64 and above) will cause major issues.
  
  The board below is much more tidy. The 2 that is to the left is not trapped because tiles can be dropped on it and the tiles to the right are fairly low value (32 or less):
  
  
  
  The biggest problem is when you have tiles out of sync or in two equal piles that are far away from each other like in the image below. Tiles on opposite sides of another tile are nearly impossible to get back together without luck. Avoid this at all costs using the next tip!
  
  
  
  
• Focus on your high tiles goal: This tip sounds a bit vague, but make sure you take stock of the board periodically. Sometimes you will get caught up in the action of combining the tiles and you will lose the forest for the trees. You are trying to get highest tiles.
  
  The image above contains an instance where most likely the two sets of 128 were combined without looking at the whole board and realizing that those two tiles need to be together or they are problematic. If you focus on the value you need to increase a tile to then you will get a better outcome.
  
  
• Combine aggressively downward: If you have your tiles tidy as above then you should combine aggressively downward then tidy your tiles back up. This tip is hard to explain unless you’ve been playing a bit. Start up a game then keep this one in mind. It will help.

Reach certain scores in Modern or Classic 4x4 mode.
Read Tips section if you want general 2048 tips.






Reach certain scores in any mode.
Read Tips section if you want general 2048 tips.

Easily done in Survival 8x8 game mode. Each combo adds seconds to your time. Press W>A>S>D continuously until you reach 300 seconds and wait for time to run out to get all the survival achievements.

In the main menu, open options and click once on the game logo.

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